They would increase her heel and render her by that much less weatherly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

She was nothing like as weatherly and far slower; the brig would headreach and weather on her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Crisis]

If Hotspur had been the faster and the more weatherly of the two he could have maintained any distance he chose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

She worked and steered well under canvas or steam alone, or under both combined; was dry and weatherly, but pitched heavily, and was rather deficient in stability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference

A gain of twenty or thirty yards, repeated often enough, and added to the steady gain resulting from being the more weatherly ship, would eventually close the gap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

They were the most weatherly ships and could afford the additional risk in order to be close up to Brest should a sudden shift of wind enable the French to get out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

That was no good, for they were as weatherly as we.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet] Reference

This ship of ours was slow, if stout and weatherly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sea Queen's Sailing] Reference

And weatherly -- why, she'll weather on craft twice her size.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"] Reference

She's not a bad goer, and weatherly, I think, all will call her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Admirals] Reference

"The loss of hamper forward will make her the more weatherly," says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Pirate] Reference

She was a handsome boat, evidently designed to be fast and weatherly.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson] Reference

She is certainly a weatherly vessel, but not more so than several others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Admirals] Reference

Only very fast and weatherly vessels could hope to cope with the difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2] Reference

The weatherly position of the cutter enabled her to steer rather more than one point freer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Tier] Reference

Had the wind been ahead, the ring bolts would have aided in warping to a weatherly position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department] Reference

The difference in the force of the two fleets, the heavy gale, and the weatherly position of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Admirals] Reference

This will cause us to lose a little of our weatherly position, but about that I am very indifferent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Admirals] Reference

Instead of that, she was fully ten hours behind her, even with her superior speed and more weatherly ability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing] Reference

From this moment, la Victoire was better off, as respected the gale and keeping a weatherly position, than any of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Admirals] Reference

She was a wide and roomy fishing craft, and weatherly enough, if she did make more leeway than one would wish in a breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sea Queen's Sailing] Reference

It was not usual for mere merchantmen to be as weatherly, or to make as much way through the water, as did all these craft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crater] Reference

Mr. Lowington and Mr. Fluxion expressed much satisfaction at her performance, both in respect of speed and weatherly qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat] Reference

She was not only a stiff and weatherly ship, but she behaved most admirably, keeping well up to the wind, and minding her helm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat] Reference

The Rancocus was a good, weatherly ship, nor was there sufficient sea on to make it at all difficult for her to claw off a lee shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crater] Reference

The early fishermen saw that the boat must have a very light draught of water, and yet be sufficiently weatherly to face the open sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of the Coast] Reference

"Luff, sir, luff a bit, so, well," he continued to the man at the helm; "we will have all of her weatherly points that site will give.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast] Reference

He'd been looking at my vessel, he said, had noticed her come to anchor, and a splendid vessel she was -- fast and weatherly, no doubt of that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wide Courses] Reference

We had calculated too much on the schooner's weatherly qualities, and had allowed her to fall off more than was necessary, in the night-watches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale] Reference

Spike was now so near the land, that he could perceive the tide was beginning to aid him, and that his weatherly set was getting to be considerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Tier] Reference

Embargo Act of 1808; and their weatherly qualities were so contemptible that they did not dare to lose sight of land without putting their guns in the hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812] Reference

Swash, was just clearing its most weatherly point, on the larboard tack, and coming out exactly at the spot where the steamer was when first seen that afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Tier] Reference

Under all these differences the lugger went through the water six feet to the frigate's five, beating her in speed almost as much as she did in her weatherly qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference

The heavy night air kept her canvas distended, and the weatherly set of the tide, trifling as it yet was, pressed her up against the breeze, so as to turn all to account.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Tier] Reference

A finer ship in the navy, more weatherly or more handy -- steered like a duck, and worked like a top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son"] Reference